Health crisis

When we look into the matter of the health crisis the main things that pop up are the shortages that government is supposed to provide for the people. Whether or not the funds are being distributed is a debate for another day. Now the matter at hand is that hospitals and clinics are not fully equipped to handle the public’s health problems. This is leading to mass deaths and an unhappy community.

Like any human instinct everybody needs to blame someone for the bad treatment they are receiving, for the public it is the nurses and doctors that are labelled careless and lazy. This is putting pressure on their professions and attitude towards their jobs. The public citizens feel their medical conditions are taken lightly and neglected;”all they ever give is panado” an old lady said. The people that suffer most from these medical problems are those that do not have medical aid, if they have no proper medical care we are still going to lose South Africans at all ages. Deaths that can be easily prevented are being easily neglected. Communities are

Traumatised and feel let down by their public health care.

Nurses and doctors are tired of being labelled lazy and negligent. They say; “the working conditions are strenuous and unbearable”. The things they are faced with everyday and the long lines at hospitals like Dora are unbearable. A nurse that would like to remain anonymous said she had worked at Dora in 1981 when Dora was built and designed to cater to Kwazakhele and Zwide. She left for London years later and now she has returned to work at Dora that is responsible for more areas yet still run and standing the same way it was, she feels the facilities are just not capable of providing medical care to all the public citizens, the shortage of doctors and nurses is also a major problem. It is problems such as these that we need to look at, the sense behind expanding hospital responsibilities without the infrastructure. There are shifts were two nurses must cater to 30 ill patients.

The Eastern Cape municipality is failing their people. Health is one of the most vital things in life, to take life from another by neglecting their needs should be a crime. These people live in poor conditions and now the care they receive must also be poor, it all goes back to the term “the rich get rich and the poor get poorer”, only now the poor are dying.